#hiring
3 essays tagged "hiring".
Apr 26, 2026
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Spotting barrels when the ammunition does most of the visible firing
Apr 25, 2026 AI steepened the performance curve instead of flattening it. Output used to tell you who the barrels were. It does not anymore.
Every team has barrels and ammunition. Which one are you?
Apr 7, 2026 Keith Rabois's framework on operators is more relevant than ever. AI just made ammunition dramatically cheaper. Barrels did not get cheaper at all.
What AI fluency actually looks like (and how to interview for it)
Anthropic studied 10,000 real conversations and built an AI Fluency Index. 85.7% of productive AI conversations involve iteration, not acceptance.